Google's new Trips app will be your offline traveling companion

Google's app for travelers is finally ready for prime time.

Months after we first saw leaked images of Trips, the company's new app for all things travel-related, Google is finally launching the service. 

Think of Trips, out now on iOS and Android,  as a kind of digital travel agent in your pocket. The app keeps track of all your upcoming and past trips and makes just about  all the information you may need — reservation details, maps, sightseeing and restaurant recommendations — available at a glance and offline. 

You begin by connecting Trips to your email account, and it'll pull in information about past and upcoming trips based on reservations that are currently in your inbox (you can also manually add your own if you have reservations elsewhere.) From there, the app creates cards for each of your upcoming and past trips. Read more...